Cat Deterrent ???

[fishrdan]

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Paw prints were annoying but it was the claw scratches that put me over the edge.

Hear you on that one, I found a set of scratches on the roof of my car along with paw prints,,, wonder where those came from

 

[BoatBuoy]

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The little flea bags broke the final straw as they started using my other neighbors front yard as their litter box and now I have carp piles outside my front door

Confused here. If they're using you other neighbors front yard, how do you have piles outside your front door?

 

[SnappingTurtle]

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My grandmother always threw moth balls & Onions in the flower beds, she had a cat, but it used it's litter box. The neighborhood cats and the wild ones alike didn't, they used the always freshly mulched garden. She swore it worked. That combined with a quick blast from the water hose every now and then seemed to work wonders.

I also have a cat, but mine is an indoor cat. Their was a wild cat that lived in the woods close to our apartment here, that was also the same color. Our neighbor insisted our cat was climbing on her car and scratching the paint. She hadn't seen our cat, she had seen the wild one. Nothing I could say could pacify her.

She started out poisoning the whole neighborhood. We found chicken meat several times she had thrown on our balcony. We had it tested, and she had put rat poison in it.

Within one month, they found two fox, three raccoons, four dogs and six cats all dead and all poisoned according to the local animal control officers.

In the end she filed a lawsuit against one of the neighbors who cat was still alive, and was allowed to go outdoors. The culprit was now yellow, and not black as she had originally said.

She lost, a automotive paint expert she had hired, for a ton of money, in the second go around in court, said the damage that led to this madness was caused by the car wash, not by a cat or dog.

What does this have to do with your problem?

She came out one morning to find someone had slit her convertible top, poured bright red paint through the holes on the leather interior, and dumped what looked like several gallons of paint remover on her beloved new BMW.

Someone who's pet was killed, was really mad. The police told us she should have thought about that, before she started a war with the whole neighborhood.

We just moved out, to get away from the nightmare, it just got worse, and worse.

I am not a animal rights activist, I am just as picky about the paint on my car as the next guy, and as an avid gardener I understand your frustration with **** in your yard.

I just hope you keep your “revenge actions” to a minimum, and don't get carried away.

That all said, I have been known to place other peoples **** in their mailboxes. Doesn't stop the cats, but sure makes you feel better.

 

[fishrdan]

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Confused here. If they're using you other neighbors front yard, how do you have piles outside your front door?

In my neighborhood, the developer had the bright idea of placing the houses on the plot short side to the street (garage faces the street and hose behind it) so we don't really have a front yard, only 2 side yards. My front door does not face the street, it faces my neighbor's house. "Zero lot line" thing where the houses are 10' apart, code says houses must be 10' apart and that's what they did to maximize the infrastructure,,, street, sewer, power, etc..

Soooo, the yard outside my front door is not my properly, it's the neighbor's who doesn't water his lawn and likes to have it filled with cat cr@p...

My nice plush lawn is on the opposite side of my house, I like to keep it green so the cats have a nice cool place to kick back and chill out...

 

[SnappingTurtle]

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In my neighborhood, the developer had the bright idea of placing the houses on the plot short side to the street (garage faces the street and hose behind it) so we don't really have a front yard, only 2 side yards. My front door does not face the street, it faces my neighbor's house. "Zero lot line" thing where the houses are 10' apart, code says houses must be 10' apart and that's what they did to maximize the infrastructure,,, street, sewer, power, etc..

Sounds like Germany.

If you sneeze here, you hear six strange voices, saying bless you.

 

[1970kayhydro]

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Well thats his mom next to him so he is half red nose pit bull and what im 99.9% sure is black lab. He is harmless as we have two cats that have been here before him and they play together well. As for the pit, thats why she is on a chain and a back-up cable.

 

[fishrdan]

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I just hope you keep your ?revenge actions? to a minimum, and don't get carried away.

Totally agree, that lady should have been taken to court instead of her taking others to court. I'm not going to that extreme.

After putting the pigeon carcases back up onto their door step several times they got the clue that the rotting carcase wasn't going to disappear and now they dispose of them as they should have in the beginning... I think my neighbor needs some persuasion to take care of the problem their cats are creating,,, and in the mean time I'm trying to figure out a way to drive the fur bags to other peoples houses.

It just figures they have their yard rocked so the cats don't have a place to go on their property,,,

 

[SnappingTurtle]

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I had a studio in Dallas many many years ago in a re-emerging area of downtown. Had really nice yard and garden I put in that the druggies & winos seemed to think was a great place to hang out at during the day. Nothing like having a meeting with a client with six drunk people screaming just outside the window.

I installed a automatic sprinkler system, with a extra switch next to my desk. Took about five days and they had moved somewhere else, and took all the trash the left there everyday with them.

Make your front door less comfortable than the neighbors for the cats, and they will move the show to a new venue.

 

[CATransplant]

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I have two cats, who never go outside. There are half a dozen cats that include my yard on their patrol routes. I suppose they crap somewhere, but I've never found any on my lawn.

My cats used to go in and out through a cat door when I lived in California, but when I moved to Minnesota, I decided to convert them to indoor life. It wasn't difficult, since they were afraid of their new, strange environment.

My problem is with folks walking their dogs and allowing them to crap on my lawn. A couple carry plastic bags with them when they walk their dogs, but most of them just let them crap wherever they want.

I've spoken about this to a couple of folks, who responded with obscenities and thinly-veiled threats, so I've quit bothering. It's not worth the stress, frankly. As I've gotten older, I've learned to choose my battles.

 

[leoo24]

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here in europe we have ultrasonic sensored cat deterrants, basically like an alarm sensor, when activated by the cats presence it sets off a high pitch sound that we humans can't here but the cats can, mum has two and work a treat!

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/_W0QQ_nkwZcatQ20deterrentQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZR40QQ_mdoZ

you seem to have a few in the US also
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38.l1313&_nkw=cat+deterrent&_sacat=See-All-Categories

 

[SgtMaj]

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BINGO! We have a winner

Since I know they are not going to keep the cats inside it's a mute point to discuss the cr@p pile.

Wow, I didn't realize you had ESP. Out of curiosity, what the hell are you doing here asking us questions when you can obviously just read our minds? You don't have to type an answer to that, just beam it into my head using your special abilities.

 

[fishrdan]

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Wow, I didn't realize you had ESP. Out of curiosity, what the hell are you doing here asking us questions when you can obviously just read our minds? You don't have to type an answer to that, just beam it into my head using your special abilities.

Ummm, OK?

It's obvious I don't have ESP because I don't know what you are talking about...

 

[Limited-Time]

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Something like this ought to do the trick.

 

[triumphrick]

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Just had to deal with this recently. Whacked out ex sister in law cat lover with 3 cats adopted a pregnant mother..had litter of 4. Now 8 cats crapping on my ex's and daughters lawn. I was her lawn guy and wasn't gonna take it any more. Hid some traps. Caught two of em. drove 5 miles into the country. Next day they are back..

Spread lawn fertilzer..cats supposedly don't like ammonia..didn't help much.

Ordered online cat repellant...granular mountain lion urine. Expensive and took a while, but you have to remove all remnants of cr*p first. There was an empty lot net door that they eventually started using.

My daughter and ex eventually moved and remaining wild cats still hang around the house..thankfully not my problem any more.

Good luck!

 

[salty87]

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i've just recently acquired a trap, hav-a-hart or something.

one of my neighbors thinks they have to feed the nasty little buggers. i can sit in my porch and watch cats come from all directions, some of them steer very wide purposefully staying on the other side of the street until they pass my house.

my dogs love to chase cats...across the street, into the neighbor's yard which isn't so bad...the street obviously bothers me. every time i open the door i have to worry about a cat popping up from behind a clump of grass and leading my dogs off somewhere....and i've got 1.5 acres. i shouldn't have to confine my dogs to leashes because of their cats.

any cats i trap will be located across the lake. they won't find their way back here. sorry, to those folks on the other side of the lake. the pound is about 45 mins away, too far.

 

[Carphunter]

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"Carp piles" .....................The only carp piles I've ever seen were after a good day of bowfishing.​

 

[arboldt]

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When we moved to a new city in 1987, we had 2 cats. We did our best to keep them indoors, but one was a determined escape artist. But she was never out long and (to our knowledge) always used our litter pan, so it was livable.

There was another cat in the neighborhood that was used to being outside, and insisted on marking its territory. We tried several things that didn't work. Finally I kept a bucket full of water next to an open slider / patio door. Next time I saw that cat, I waited for it to get close enough, then threw the water on it through the screen. (Opening the screen scared it away). Yeah, not all the water made it where I intended through the screen, but enough did that we never had that problem again.

Our cats both died of old age by 1992, and we have not replaced them due to my allergies.

 

[BoatBuoy]

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Carrying a nuisance animal off is moving your problem to someone else. Is that how things are supposed to be done? Just transfering your problem to someone else? In the higher scheme of things, that sumarizes a lot of today's problems.

 

[SS MAYFLOAT]

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Carrying a nuisance animal off is moving your problem to someone else. Is that how things are supposed to be done? Just transfering your problem to someone else? In the higher scheme of things, that sumarizes a lot of today's problems.

Thanks BB, I get cats dropped off by my house very often by people who live in town. Thankfully they don't grow after you plant them. Rats and Cats both breed often with many. I don't hate cats in general, its the ones that run wild that eat up the wild game (drop offs). I feel that the country side has the right to flourish its wildlife without the intervention of a domestic animal that was unwanted.

 

[thefairlaneman]

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The BEST car deterrent and all natural too is a ..................bigger and meaner CAT!